462 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
the adult state about July 1st. Its flight is silent or slightly 
rusthng, usually low, short, and direct, resembling that of a large 
Melanoplus; when with the wind, however, it is occasionally 
prolonged for several rods in a straight line. 
Economically, this is one of the most important Locusts of 
New England. Always plentiful in its haunts, it needs but a few 
favorable droughty years to enable it to multiply to such numbers 
as to make it a dangerous pest; and on several occasions it has 
done great damage locally in Minnesota and California. The dry 
hill-pastures of Vermont and New Hampshire are often overrun 
with swarms of this species in late summer and the aggregate 
damage must be large. Personally, I have never seen it so abun- 
dant in New England as I once saw it on the summit of Mary's 
Peak in the Coast Range of Oregon, where the gravelly soil formed 
of decomposing rock debris actually swarmed with the myriads 
crawling in all directions, mating and ovipositing by the million. 
Somes describes the egg-pods in Minnesota as "short, stout, 
considerably curved, and not firmly cemented, containing twenty 
to thirty eggs each, and placed just below the surface of the soil or 
in some cases even above the surface amid dead grass." 
Coral-winged Locust. 
Pardalophora apiculata (Harris). 
Plate 10, fig. 6; Plate 21, figs. 9, 10. 
Locusta apiculata Harris, in Hitchcock's Rept. Geol. Mass., 2d ed., p. 576, 
(1835). 
Locusta corallina Harris, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 176 (1862). 
Oedipoda phoenicoptera Scudder, Boston Jo urn. Nat. Hist., vol 7, p. 468 
(1862).— Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 151 (1868); 
Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 371 (1873). 
Hippiscus tuberculatus Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 42 (1888). — Morse, Psyche, 
vol. 7, p. 81 (1897).— Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, 
p. 94 (1911). 
Body of male a httle compressed. Vertex prominent, sub- 
angulate with face, lateral carinae prominent, median carina of 
scutellum obsolete anteriorly, supplementary carinae usually 
absent. Antennae of male equal to head plus pronotum, of 
female shorter, rather stout and a little flattened. Metazone 
much longer than prozone, its hind margin rectangulate or a little 
